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20.1.5 How Tk and Tkinter are Related</a>
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<dt><strong>Your App Here (Python)</strong></dt>
<dd>A Python application makes a <tt class="module"><a href="module-Tkinter.html">Tkinter</a></tt> call.

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<dt><strong>Tkinter (Python Module)</strong></dt>
<dd>This call (say, for example, creating a button widget), is
implemented in the <em>Tkinter</em> module, which is written in
Python.  This Python function will parse the commands and the
arguments and convert them into a form that makes them look as if they
had come from a Tk script instead of a Python script.

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<dt><strong>tkinter (C)</strong></dt>
<dd>These commands and their arguments will be passed to a C function
in the <em>tkinter</em> - note the lowercase - extension module.

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<dt><strong>Tk Widgets (C and Tcl)</strong></dt>
<dd>This C function is able to make calls into other C modules,
including the C functions that make up the Tk library.  Tk is
implemented in C and some Tcl.  The Tcl part of the Tk widgets is used
to bind certain default behaviors to widgets, and is executed once at
the point where the Python <tt class="module"><a href="module-Tkinter.html">Tkinter</a></tt> module is
imported. (The user never sees this stage).

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<dt><strong>Tk (C)</strong></dt>
<dd>The Tk part of the Tk Widgets implement the final mapping to ...

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<dt><strong>Xlib (C)</strong></dt>
<dd>the Xlib library to draw graphics on the screen.
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